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A New Project!

So last night we saw a group was forming to run Nax on Single Abstract Noun(Argent Dawn US). So my wife and I decided to take our spare tank and healer and server transfer them. So now we have a heal/tank and tank/heal pair on Argent Dawn –US in SAN with ICC viable gear for all those roles.

So we had the idea of a new project. We have been thinking about what we might want to do in Cata and even between now and Cata. We are getting fair results with PUGing ICC groups and getting into occasional guild alt runs but it feels like we need a smidge more… SOMETHING to get a push to downing Arthas. All we really need is a better pool of raiders to draw from then what we have been getting semi randomly.

Basically our idea is to form a 10 man group inside SAN and to court enough 80s, either from internal leveling up or from getting MEMBERS (not strangers) to server transfer, and then to make those into a viable raid group.

We are not trying to ‘run’, ‘take over’ or in any way control the guild. This is a voluntary end game raid team pulling primarily from SAN members and open to any SAN. We will pug the rest of the slots as needed. We are going to be a subset of the guild, not setting any directions or agenda on the guild as a whole. If this project interferes at all in the atmosphere of ‘fun’ of the guild as a whole we will nix it and move on to some other project.

We plan for it to be a viable group so while we are laid back and not picky we will be doing what we can to build the team up and advise people as needed to have viable dps/tanking/healing and to do their part.

We will not tolerate dead weight (in the long term) but will do everything in our power in a friendly constructive way to make anyone that wants to come into ‘non-deadweight’ including (within reason) gear runs and pointing people at class and fight resources. I think anyone can be built up into a viable raider. But raiding is not for everyone. This means no GS requirement and no experience requirement but come ready to learn and willing to work to gear up if you are short on gear or knowledge.

So come as you are and be ready to learn the fights, gear up, and do well.

This is SAN so we are not going to bother with complicated rules unless a need for a stated policy pops up.

We are targeting to raid 1-2 nights a week. That would get us into LK with only minimal raid lockout extensions. We might start by doing one ICC run and one ‘old raid’ run.

Chances are 100% that there are SAN with far more raiding experience than myself of my wife. So we will be drawing on the knowledge and leadership of anyone willing to come and help. I am personally 10/12 in ICC 10 mans (I forget where on 25). We also have a lot of practice putting together PUGS of ICC and dragging them as far as we can.

Because SAN is still short on geared 80s we will probably start with some more runs like the NAX run last night. Plus since our alts are also under geared we will have a strong early focus on gearing up.

We are planning to start with 10 man but might run some 25 if there is interest. Also SAN seems to be heavy on tanking and healing so keep in mind you might be need a DPS off spec or alt (Analogue and I plan to have some DPS alts for the project).

We are not concerned about perfect class balance or any other srsbzn. All we want is a desire to see new content. All we need is the willingness to work a little to get there.

Currently we are targeting Friday night to get started by 8 server (EST). If there is interest in another time or day we will be open to it.

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I do have a demo warlock that I leveled to 80 and then moved on. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a total noob and have never stepped foot in a raid before, but if you’re desperate for someone to fill the slot and have an overwhelming amount of patience, I can drag dust Noti off in the meantime and give it a go. I just dinged 77 last night on Daruma (enh shaman) so I hope to join you on her soon.

I would say, pick something you want to have fun with and we can work from there! Or you can power-level Daruma – no raid is as awesome without a shaman! – and we can get you geared up. Running instances with a pocket tank would guarantee you enough badges to gear up fast.

I was on that Naxx run on Tessarquia, my SAN ele shaman – and I support you fully on this project. My 10-man is 11/12 Heroic in ICC10, so anything I can do to help, just let me know. Tessa is currently gearing up, but is decently along: I have an average ilvl of 219, and that’s just because of a couple of really bad items which I am endlessly grinding for (hello caster shield!), so I would say I can hold my own in the Lower Spire at least so far.

The biggest hurdle is going to be schedules: I live in Europe, so I am 6 hours ahead of server time, and to make matters worse I raid 2-3 nights a week with my regular 10man team, which I’m not going to give up (we’ve been together since late vanilla…). If however I can make those times, count me in!

Awesome, we will hopefully be able to get you in on things! Vet has said he wants in once he’s levelled, so it might take a week or two to get off the ground but we’re going to get this going. Might have to do Sunday afternoons… hmmm… we’ll see once we have a few more.